Point Ruston: Parking fee amounts to discrimination

Re: “Paid parking is coming to one of Tacoma’s most popular destinations,” (TNT, 2/13).

Few overpasses are as infamous as the ones over Southern State Parkway in New York. Robert Moses, the master planner of New York City, designed them with a low clearance so that they can stop poor (non-white) people riding buses from the city to Jones Beach.

Even now, the overpasses stand as monuments of inequality in urban planning.

Tacoma is retrofitting its own symbol of inequality. Loren Cohen, the developer of Point Ruston, has recently announced the end to free parking.